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ExoMars mission. Image credit: ESA-D. Ducros, 2012
European Mars mission enters final stage of construction
ESA’s ExoMars mission has entered the final stage of construction with the signature of a contract with Thales Alenia Space at the Paris Air & Space Show.
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James Webb Space Telescope gets a backbone
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Comet plunge reveals solar secrets
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Planet hunters refining search for rocky worlds
Astronomers are testing the feasability of a new technique that could increase the chance of detecting Earth-like planets around other stars
Mars explorers still finding evidence of wet past
Ten years after being launched NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity and the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter continue to provide a clearer insight into the planet's history
Hot Jupiters stopped from being eaten
A new study of planets in other star systems suggests that hot gas giants do not always get eaten by their parent star but instead remain in fairly stable orbits for billions of years.
Astronomers discover a comet factory
Astronomers have imaged a region around a young star where dust particles are clumping together to form the building blocks of comets and rocky bodies
European cargo freighter launched for the space station
The European Space Agency's fouth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), named Albert Einstein, reached orbit last night and is making its way to the International Space Station.
Is this the lightest exoplanet imaged so far?
A team of astronomers have found what is probably the least massive planet to be directly observed outside the Solar System.
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Lunar probes reveal mystery of the Moon's gravity
NASA's GRAIL mission has discovered the origin of the moon's uneven gravity.
Saturn’s moon Dione shows signs of activity
Waves and hurricanes forecast on Titan
Mars rocks examined by NASA rovers